Claude Zidi

Rene (P. Noiret) is a "ripou", a rotten cop who makes ends meet by accepting bribes, presents and free drinks from the people he should be putting in jail (imdb)

The well-known little village from the Asterix and Obelix-comic books is in trouble: It is the last place not controlled by Rome... (imdb)

Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste! (imdb)

Guillaume (Louis de Funes) has made it: a machine which can clean dirty air by simply sucking all dirt into balloons and then shipping them far, far away. Some Japanese businessmen, after dinner with a lot of alcohol, order 5000 pieces. His only problem: production capacity is way too small, so he has to produce the machines in his private house... (imdb)

A movie about a good-for-nothing stuntman called Mike Gaucher who can't do one single job without something going wrong. His fiancé wants to kill him, the film studios don't want to give him any more work and, as King Kong for a promotion in a supermarket, he winds up destroying some display shelves. The only role he plays well is pretending not to be able to hear, speak and walk in order to get money from the government. Then along comes the "beautiful" actor called Bruno Ferrari... (imdb)

Students use every stratagem possible to cheat at exams and obtain their diplomas. (TonyS.)

A group of friends are planning how to spend their summer vacation. One plans to go to the Seychelles with his American girlfriend. At the airport she dumps him for another guy. He has no money so he steals a backpack and goes camping. Somehow he meets a pretty girl and convinces her to share his tent. But a famous singer sees the girl and wants her too... (imdb)

Michel (Coluche) works manically solving people's problems over the phone. He is about to tie the knot with his girl friend Isabelle (Valerie Mairesse), an airline hostess. She flies all over the world, he hates to leave the office. A series of madcap mishaps involving theft or injury ensues after Michel promises Isabelle nothing will delay their marriage and she promises in turn that she's done flying. (imdb)

This is one of the French comedies made in the early '70s featuring the musicians-turned-comedians, Les Charlots. They play a group of inept but good-hearted fellows who help a small market owner compete with a large supermarket across the street by shoplifting enough from the big store to enable the smaller store to carry on. The store owner is able to re-do his little store and, though it offers little competition to the larger one, he is bought out for a lot of money. (Allmovie)

Coluche stars as the inept police inspector, Michel Clement. The senior Clement was a spectacular policeman, and Michel finds it particularly difficult to try and walk in his father's footsteps without tripping. At the moment he is after Roger Morzini, a dangerous gangster who eventually kidnaps Marie-Anne Prossant. She is a journalist traveling with Michel as he tries to track down Morzini. Her objective was to get an interview with the gangster, and now she has more than she bargained for (Allmovie)

Pierre Durois is a bumbling school teacher with an eye for the older female students; his father is a reputable surgeon who is running for Mayor. There's a film shooting crew in town and the paparazzi are around too. Zaney antics follow with typical French coincidences to heighten the comic elements. (imdb)

Everyone thinks that François Voisin is a model executive with a calm and orderly life, but it is only a front. In reality, François is a secret agent, one of the best: in the game he is nicknamed l'Épée, "the Sword". But even as he infiltrates arms-smuggling rings and prevents terrorist attacks, he fails to realize that his wife is bored. One day he discovers she is having an affair... (Wikipedia)

A bunch of lovable losers go to war.

The partners are back and are in a tight spot! Francois is going through a moral crisis, and Rene is experiencing the same. But, honesty is not always the best policy. After being suspended for their actions, they return to face their far more crooked replacements. (imdb)

François Lesbuche has become commissioner of IGS. Despite his rank and his willingness to be incorruptible, he does not hesitate to help his old friend Rene, who is a retired recluse on his barge...

Young and dynamic, founded with power from the "20th Century Bank", Pierre Vidal regularly spies with his binoculars his partner Janet, who works in a hairdressing salon. Fed up of being constantly watched, she takes advantage to excite his jealousy. His boss having taken a few days of vacation, Pierre is in charge to replace him.

A disillusioned police detective, used as a scapegoat by his corrupted superior, fights back by becoming a competent criminal. (imdb)

As a nearby village makes ready to welcome the torch carrier of the International Games, 4 friends (Jean-Guy, Phil, Gérard & Jean) are enjoying an holiday in Provence. When his son becomes indisposed, the town's grocer, Jules, appeals to the friends to help him to complete the preparations for the welcoming committee. The grocer's daughter Délice, catches the eye, and the heart, of Gérard, but she only appears to be interested in the well-built athlete who brings the torch to the town.

Paul Martin and François Leroux are brothers-in-law, friends, room-mates and gagmen without fame. But one day, one of the most famous television comics, Gaëtan, who has just laid off two his gagmen considered too old and not original enough, finds himself in the little theater where Paul and François where they produce themselves under the name of "Gagsters". (Wikipedia)

Gérard, Phil, Jean-Guy, Jean and Luis, five inseparable friends, dream of creating a pop group under the name of The Tourists. After having rented their instruments, they participate at a regional contest, in which they win the trophy.

Jacques is a soldier who is called away from his military leave in order to take part in a secret mission. It couldn't have come at a worse time, as he was just about to propose to his girlfriend. With considerable cunning and guile, this dull-seeming super-soldier gets the whole operation moved. Now ensconced in her hotel, he can keep an eye on his girlfriend and do his job at the same time. (Allmovie)

Five childhood friends, who live in a small provincial town, have been excluded from the region's only nightclub. Feeling idle, they plan to open a competing nightclub in the garage of the father (Guy Marchand) of two of them. Unfortunately, the owner (Jean-Marie Bigard) of the only nightclub in the region will do everything possible to close his competitors.

Thierry, Gerard, Francis and Daniel are friends, and former comrades of HEC Paris. If the first three have brilliantly succeeded in their lives, Daniel has not. When Daniel proposes another "business" to his friends, they refuse and decide to make him believe that he won the Lotto thanks to an ingeniously rigged and mounted edition.